Daniele Callegari

Daniele Callegari was Principal Conductor of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice at the Opéra Nice Côte d’Azur from 2021 to 2023. From 1998 to 2001 he was Principal Conductor at the Wexford Opera Festival and from 2002 to 2008 he was Music Director of the DeFilharmonie (Royal Flanders Philharmonic Orchestra) in Antwerp.
In 2022 he was appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by French Republic. Born in Milan, he graduated from the city’s Conservatory in double bass and percussion. At just 22, he joined the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra, where he had the opportunity to play with some of the world’s most renowned conductors.
This stimulating encounter with such renowned names brought him back to the Conservatory to study conducting and composition.
Daniele Callegari has directed some of the major concert institutions in the world, including: l’Orchestre Metropolitain de Montréal, Orchestre Nationale de l’Île de France, Orchestre National de Belgique, Orchestre philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Orchestre de La Monnaie de Bruxelles, Rotterdam Philharmonic
Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Orchestra Sinfonica dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Nacional de Madrid, Orchestra Sinfonica “Giuseppe Verdi” di Milano.
He is regularly invited by the major theatres and the most prestigious concert halls in the world, where he has conducted many important productions, including Nabucco, La traviata, Il trovatore and La Gioconda at Metropolitan Opera in New York, Orlenskaya Deva at Carnegie Hall in New York, Turandot at Teatro alla Scala, Il trovatore, Rigoletto e Madama Butterfly at Opéra National de Paris, Maria Stuarda at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées de Paris, Norma, La Gioconda, Aida, Poliuto (only to name a few) at Liceu de Barcelona, L’elisir d’amore and La traviata at Staatsoper in Berlin, L’elisir d’amore at Wiener Staatsoper; Tosca, La bohéme, Un ballo in maschera and Rigoletto (to name a few) at Bayerische Staatsoper, Don Giovanni, Falstaff and Aida at San Diego Opera, I masnadieri, Tosca, Otello, Attila and Ernani all’Opéra de Monte-Carlo; Ariane et Barbe-Bleue all’Opéra du Rhin de Strasbourg, Don Pasquale at NCPA Beijing, Falstaff at Opéra de Montréal, Cavalleria rusticana and I pagliacci at San Francisco.